Refreshing Van Gogh's faded flowers Conservators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands are working with scientists at AkzoNobel to reverse the effects of time, and reveal Van Gogh's paintings as they appeared when he first painted them.

Let's talk about chemistry I hope all of you have now had a chance to at least skim read the results of the survey carried out this year by the Royal Society of Chemistry on the public's attitudes to chemistry in the UK.